Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent ...

An international collaboration using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) has published an exceptionally detailed radio sky map, revealing 13.7 million cosmic sources and delivering the most complete ...

A scientist has detailed the somewhat terrifying reality of what would someone would see or feel if they fell into a black ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated 70 dusty galaxies at the very edge of the universe that ...

A multifractal spectrum called a weighted Cantor set model can describe how galaxies cluster, which is similar to other ...

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

An international team of scientists led by the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the ...

For the first time, NASA Chandra X-ray telescope has been used to discover a pair of black holes in dwarf galaxies that are on a collision course. The Chandra team explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

Modern cosmology often presents itself as the most triumphant extension of physics: a discipline that has traced the history of the universe from fractions of a second after the Big Bang to the ...

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

Not only was Star Trek: The Original Series groundbreaking for television, it also featured sci-fi quotes that have stood the ...

Astronomers have just identified what appears to be a cosmic anomaly: a faint galaxy with so few visible stars that, according to calculations, as much as 99.9 percent of its mass is dark matter. The ...